60 TODDLER PURPOSEFUL PLAY IDEAS! MONTESSORI ACTIVITIES FOR 16-18 MONTHS OLD \\ Montessori at Home

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See all the brilliant activities our toddlers are capable of! Montessori activities for 16-18 month toddlers become creative, challenging, fun, and exciting. Equally so for the Montessori parent/caregiver and Montessori toddler! These Montessori at home activities are easy to set up, help our children develop their language, math, science, art, and musical skills, all at their own pace! Playtime takes on a new form as our toddlers enter the world of pretend play and role playing! We can provide additional Montessori activities to support our toddler's interests in pretend play, as well as practical life activities. You may be surprised to find all the things your toddler is capable of, whether you practice Montessori at home or not! Give these toddler activities a try and let your child surprise you!
We cover a variety of Montessori activities suitable for 16-18 months in this video, but keep in mind that the Montessori activities we discussed for 14-15 month olds will still be applicable at this age! Our children are continuing to perfect those skills, while discovering new ones. Think of these Montessori play ideas as additional activities to add to your toy rotation, without displacing the activity ideas for 14-15 months!
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@MariaandMontessori 2 жыл бұрын

❗A few notes! 🌟You absolutely do not need ALL of these materials - take this as inspiration for what your little one may be interested in! 🌟Your child may be interested in these activities at an earlier or later age, and that is the beauty of Montessori 🥰 Activities from 14-15 and even 12-13 months are still relevant! 🌟I've tried to link everything in the description box but let me know if you're looking for something that's not there!

@alenkab2007 2 жыл бұрын

I visited so many accredited Montessori School and am not sure that they have so many wonderful materials in their toddler classes. Your ideas are just phenomenal! Stella is lucky! 👍👍👍

@MariaandMontessori 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I think it would be really hard to choose a school now after working with her at home!😅

@Dragonfly7590 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the great ideas, Maria! Stella is fortunate to have you (and so are we on KZfaq)! I appreciate the care and thoughtfulness you put in your videos. Sometimes, we get too caught up on weekend chores. This has reminded me and inspired me to refocus on activities for my daughter. Hugs!

@MariaandMontessori 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my thank you so much 🥰 I honestly really appreciate it! And we definitely focus on the chores during the weekends too, especially if there's big projects going on around the house! I'm glad this was a helpful reminder!

@user-xf4bz4gm8p Жыл бұрын

스스로 해 보는 성취강 뿌듯해요. 보는 사람들도 행복하답니다

@mixed_and_nerdy 2 жыл бұрын

The ball tower is STILL one of Zanders favorites! Simple can be fantastic sometimes. That bunny light is so cute as well

@MariaandMontessori 2 жыл бұрын

I've been waiting for when that spot will clear up.. seems we have a long ways to go🤣

@user-by2pb4np3u 7 ай бұрын

Thabks mama! Good work.

@tayliaready9635 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video! So helpful, thank you! I love how genuine you are and wanting truly help❤

@MariaandMontessori Жыл бұрын

Thank you! So happy to know this was helpful 🥰

@hollyhill22 2 жыл бұрын

I totally forgot about the cards in a wallet activity! So simple but loved! There are a lot of activities that my 14 month old would like! Thanks for all the ideas!

@MariaandMontessori 2 жыл бұрын

I forgot about it too until Stella got her hands on my current wallet and lost my license right before her eye appointment 😬 figured it's time we rotate it back in 😅

@NataliaNewZealand Жыл бұрын

Wow this is such a comprehensive list, thank you so much!

@MariaandMontessori Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Hope your little one enjoys some of these 🤗

@DMM.DreamMoodsMusic 2 жыл бұрын

This video is wonderful. I’m sure you’re always busy with Stella but could I suggest making an Amazon storefront for all of your links. Continue the good work.

@MariaandMontessori 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I am working on getting a storefront going now that we have hit some milestones here and on my other social media accounts. Fingers crossed I'm approved and we can have something soon🤞 Otherwise, I'm also looking into other platforms to list everything in one spot!

@2012nursetobe 2 жыл бұрын

Yay! I've also been waiting for your storefront.

@MariaandMontessori 2 жыл бұрын

I'll definitely work to have some kind of solution ASAP! I'm running out of characters in the description box these days 😅

@AmmaraSHAH773377 2 жыл бұрын

Awwhhh love the slippers Huda's just about learnt to wear her teddy slippers now i bet stella likes taking them off and putting them away. All these stacking matching activities are really good for the positioning schema too I love using items around the house for sorting like sea shells and cutlery Thanks again we got the nuts and bolts after your short clip and Huda is keen on it Omf Threading beads!!!! The current fave! The textiles genes within her are activated lol We had some difficulty with the keys so had to delay that activity a bit but watching stella with it i have hope soon she'll try again. Awwwwhhh the night light or flash light is the cutest thing Huda loves using the sequined scarf taking it right under the light or in the sunlight to manipulate it so this will be great. Huda appreciated the glue stick activity which i copied from stella lol Awwhhh I'm so happy i got the baby yoga book as we have been doing it for a while now but when we went to my cousin/best friend's house this was a great group activity Huda kept making evryone do that cat pose and ran away when we did the cow pose. She learnt the names of a bunch of them so it really helped. All of the practical life activities are great and i think actually seeing Mia do the coat flip helped so i might show her Stella doing some of these activities. Can't believe how quickly they've just started to do all these things we have been working on and it only takes a few attempts when we show a new activity for them to grasp it. Its so cool to watch Stella handling all these materials and accomplishing so many tasks. I loved how long this video was assuming it because she's just doing SO MUCH now hahahah.

@MariaandMontessori 2 жыл бұрын

Stella has a love hate relationship with anything on her feet. She's really proud of her fluffy socks and meow meow slippers, but will also take them off throughout the day and hide them, showing off really proudly that they're gone 😅 But our house floors are SO COLD right now, even slippers aren't enough. So it's a constant scavenger hunt here. Stella was so so frustrated that she couldn't get the beads, even though she was pretty good with the lacing block. But now that she's got it, she puts a whole bunch on and pulls it around the house like a pull toy 🤣 Which baby yoga book do you have? I still haven't purchased one but I'm also getting to a point where I can't do a workout each time Stella pulls out the yoga mat. We still haven't been able to get the coat flip down. Even I can't get the coat to rotate on Stella's arms. I wonder if it's all the layers causing it to bunch up? Yes, there was just SO MUCH over the past 3 months that I couldn't find anything that was any less important to remove 😭 Her skills just skyrocketed at this age! I'm thinking there may not be as many new concepts in the next few months, but will need to gauge if I stick with 3 month intervals or go back to 2 😅 There were A LOT of clip to go through here!

@AmmaraSHAH773377 2 жыл бұрын

@@MariaandMontessori ahahah thats so funny i can't. Stella is great be proud of your abilities to change something you are not happy with and take control where you can its funny she shows you cant wait for those days where they'll start hiding items and different experiments from us 😅 hopefully positive discipline will reduce that🤞🏼 Aahh yess the self created pull toy its so cute how proud she is of her final product and then i gotta make sure the beads return to shelf and not under the sofa or fridge👀 😅i feeel you on the enrgy to keep doing the yoga sessions when she pulls the book out but i got her to pretend play with her stuffed animals lining tem.up as though she's their instructor hahahhaits funny and im at ease at least until i can actually play hide and seek with her. I accept the feeling she has of wanting to play With me but still set the expectation of waiting for me. We could read another book or we can play hide and seek once we have done with dinner etc. Awhhh i didn't think it erased going to happen at this age but she had the desire to learn so maybe seeing me do the flip with my jacket and then seeing mia and another kid do it somehow helped her realise what to do with her arms and head. Once she has gotten into more of these self care tasks would that be a possible future video? Soooo much development so many skills i get it and now you said 3 months i realised hust how different the previous video was. I like these long ones but the shorter ones every 2 months might be nice too especially for you to edit. I really liked the clips of her doing all the activities its soooooo worth really helps us to prepare them too and figure out which will work for us.

@MariaandMontessori 2 жыл бұрын

@@AmmaraSHAH773377 oh wow I completely missed this comment! Yes, I have a full day in the life coming this weekend, but maybe a dedicated care of self video is needed as well!

@Arielpree3555 2 жыл бұрын

I found you from Reddit just subscribed ! Love all the ideas you gave.

@MariaandMontessori 2 жыл бұрын

Aw thank you! So happy to know they're helpful ☺️

@AbhiPunj Жыл бұрын

Brilliant video thank you

@MariaandMontessori Жыл бұрын

So happy to hear that 🥰🥰🥰

@vvvvviiivvvv Жыл бұрын

Love your channel and content. Always my to go when looking ahead to see what activities or toys to buy for my son. Ty!

@MariaandMontessori Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 🥹🥹🥹

@vanessasanchezq 2 жыл бұрын

sooooo cute thanks i loveddddddddddd thanks my baby is 15 months old

@MariaandMontessori 2 жыл бұрын

Aw thank you!! 🥰

@2012nursetobe 2 жыл бұрын

What a tremendous amount of work you must have put into this video. Im always trying to stay one step ahead of my girl to make sure we have the materials she will need to stay engaged and challenged. Your videos are so helpful and full of great ideas! Two questions: How many shelf activities do you have out for Stella at a time? And how often do you rotate activities?

@MariaandMontessori 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 🥺 I definitely have a lot of sleep to catch up on, but these are my favorite videos to put together and I always get such great feedback from everyone! I tend to look ahead of Stella's age as well and it's really helpful! Aside from her art and music activities, Stella has her 8 shelf work activities in her playroom, about 6 practical life options in our kitchen (pouring, transferring, folding, etc...other practical life is always available), and 6-8 open ended play options in our living room. I keep a couple options of any of these upstairs for when I need to get practical life work done but she's not interested in joining. We slowly added these areas as I found Stella gravitating towards different types of play throughout the day because we are home all day every day. If she went to daycare or if we weren't mid-pandemic, a smaller amount may have sufficed! I have a playroom and home tour to show what those spaces look like here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sJ-Igdljq9KYiIE.html and here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rMtieZiilrW5oWQ.html And I've been posting updates in our shelf rotations per popular request as shorts! As for rotations, the short answer is I don't have a set schedule. I do check in once a week to make sure I haven't completely forgotten about it, but other than that, I watch her cues. I went into detail on that process in a video as well! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/js-qpMiV0LSuhqs.html

@2012nursetobe 2 жыл бұрын

Oh wow, definitely gonna have to check those out as well! Thank you for always providing such thoughtful responses.

@AmmaraSHAH773377 2 жыл бұрын

@@MariaandMontessori awwhw bless but it really shows how much you like doing these videos as they always turn out great and we all look forward to them! Thank you so much for all of your extra effort and work.

@mitsoukamaignan9829 5 ай бұрын

I’m so glad I find your page😻it’s very helpful thank you

@MariaandMontessori 5 ай бұрын

So happy to hear that!!

@sbasra5660 2 жыл бұрын

excellent thank you

@MariaandMontessori 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@mixed_and_nerdy 2 жыл бұрын

Omg girl 1k subs!!! WOOHOOOOO

@MariaandMontessori 2 жыл бұрын

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰thank you!!

@AmmaraSHAH773377 2 жыл бұрын

Ohhh i forgot to share the funny moment whilst we were playing with magnatiles, Huda brought over her fridge magnets which i was suprised by but then she got soooo excited and said 'Huda Idea idea idea!' And ran over to fridge with the magnetiles i was suprised because i hadn't even thought of it like you did😅 Truly these moments are the most rewarding seeing her 'ideas'😆 completely worth doing all our preparation and slowing down in our activities with them investing in all this time and effort so they can have moments like this Montessori has been a great blessing 🙌🥰

@MariaandMontessori 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh that's so precious! I love that she's able to express that it was her idea too 🥺 what a special moment!!

@supreetkaur4831 Жыл бұрын

Hello! Really nice video! I would like to know from where did you get the sofa ramp for your kid to roll down the cars.

@MariaandMontessori Жыл бұрын

Hi! That's The Nugget couch! It's what I use for all of our obstacle courses 🥰 nuggetcomfort.com/products/the-nugget

@AmmaraSHAH773377 2 жыл бұрын

Ahh i couldn't find the animal sound puzzle its great for realistic pictures too idk if you have any recommendations for an alternative?

@MariaandMontessori 2 жыл бұрын

Ah I can't forget that's the one I missed! Thank you, I added it! bit.ly/3A2iPcq

@AmmaraSHAH773377 2 жыл бұрын

@@MariaandMontessori thank youu i found a way to avoid shipping cost through a secong hand option finally Also found these I'm not keen on the fact they aren't peg puzzles but i love the real images used and it might just be a nice matching activity now that she s trying to say the names of everything. Would you recommend against it or will it be okay there's a deal on in the uk version.

@MariaandMontessori 2 жыл бұрын

@@AmmaraSHAH773377 is there a link in your previous comment that KZfaq has removed? Overall I think it's possible to utilize just about anything, especially if it has realistic images! I wasn't sure how Stella would feel about that chunky puzzle or the bear dress up puzzle because they aren't pegs, but she was actually very much so up for the change of pace.

@AmmaraSHAH773377 2 жыл бұрын

@@MariaandMontessori Yh i think KZfaq is removing the link i can only post comments without it. I wish they could actually do this for all comments sections the spam porn accounts on actual Montessori family vloggers videos is not suitable.

@MariaandMontessori 2 жыл бұрын

Ugh I used to at east get emails sometimes of the deleted comment so I could still see the link..but this time nothing at all. Why aren't I allowed to make that call in my own comment section 🤦‍♀️ Is there an item description I can type into the Google? I'm now very curious!

@laurifr06 8 ай бұрын

I heard you mentioned Montessori and me. What is that?

@MariaandMontessori 7 ай бұрын

It's one of the few Montessori brands that I will stand behind 🙂 they are a small business and sell Montessori friendly furniture and activities!

@SahitiSeemakurti 2 ай бұрын

Where did u buy all your toys

@MariaandMontessori 2 ай бұрын

Everything is linked in the description!

@doinggreat974 Жыл бұрын

R these activities recorded just between the age of 16-18 months of your baby? I m surprise to know so many things can really a baby do at this age. Please reply .

@MariaandMontessori Жыл бұрын

She was 16, 17, and 18 months during this. But of course every child is different! She first worked on the activities in the previous video, and the one before that. I introduce activities based on her changing interests and skills!

@doinggreat974 Жыл бұрын

@@MariaandMontessori so glad u replied. You and your baby really made lots of efforts. Love n Blessings from India to ur baby.

@Mariangela.L Жыл бұрын

How doesn’t she put everything in her mouth?

@MariaandMontessori Жыл бұрын

It's something that we had worked on consistently from the beginning - things that can and cannot be mouthed. By this age, she knew how to explore toys without mouthing them and knew where to go if she was hungry for a snack.

@vivietamihmih8460 Жыл бұрын

i dont know what kid i have but she is not interested in any of those. doesnt try, if she tries (one or 2 tries before leaving) there is no color matching nor thinking. i hoped she would like throwing ball but no thats also not interesting. she likes dolls but she doesnt try dressing them

@MariaandMontessori Жыл бұрын

She may need activities to scaffold her skills to these activities- we worked on other activites in earlier videos to set her up for success here. And I model how to do each activity, watch what she does with it, and modify. Kids will be most likely to concentrate on activities they choose, so if it's not any of this, then see what she IS doing. How IS she trying to explore the world?